four people are taken into custody in georgia as a protest over allegedly torture and abuse in the country's prisons. deadly period in the arab world libyan storm militia base is angry at the killing of the u.s. ambassador all seventeen are killed in pakistan clashes against the prime time slot . and thousands are and rather independent supporters gather in edinburgh with thousands expected to march and stop the. goals of the ball and the rest of the.

hello and welcome to our team karen tara and it is two o'clock here in moscow to georgia now where georgian police have arrested at least four protesters as public theory flared after leaked to videos showed inmates out of prison being tortured and sexually abused by guards are cheesy go to school has the latest from tbilisi for us. the protests are continuing there have been more arrests and some clashes between the activists and the police i know that a group of activists trying to breaking through a police ring around one of the government buildings on friday the public in general is still very angry with these videos they are demanding for the arrest of the former interior minister who has resigned after these videos went public but

many people here say that that's not enough they want all those officials responsible to be not only sacked or for them to resign but also to be arrested and prosecuted in fact many here are comparing the footage which shows torture and human sexual abuse of georgia inmates from the infamous guantanamo prison except that houses terror suspects here we're talking about georgian inmates which is creating a huge wave of public anger now on friday journalists for the first time to visit the downy prison where allegedly the footage is from some of the inmates said that they are still afraid that they are going to be used by the authorities even though president saakashvili has temporarily substituted all prison staff in all prisons in georgia with police officers going to be the crowds they used to be one of the

senior staff members of the prison he's saying that leaking these videos was just to show the world how president saakashvili really treats his citizens since claims that he filmed these videos by the waters off the head of the prison he also claims that the former interior minister filmed some of this for just a while and showed it to president saakashvili he also described how the inmates were chosen for this abuse. sometimes it was just the random people but also in the war those who are opponents also circus really see she all this is definitely a future to the georgian authorities efforts to create this image of a transparent certainly democratic penitentiary system and the election to parliament discovery go up just in the first of october and according to the latest polls here in georgia the ruling party and president circus really may have cost up

to twenty percent because of these videos so people are quickly and massively losing trust in the field. thousands have taken to the streets of libya's second city benghazi to demand an end to the tyranny of armed militias four people have been killed and dozens injured outside in islam a space protesters evicted several brigades setting buildings and cars ablaze on militia members fire to try and disperse the crowds of people are angry at the militia and one of the groups is suspected of killing the u.s. ambassador to libya and three other americans and protests over the last may and times one for. the islamic militias are a legacy of the uprising that killed moammar gadhafi they are also accused of intimidation and carrying out extrajudicial killings journalist anthony while says america's foreign policy has the stabilize the region. the cause of what we're

seeing here today is many decades of foreign policy that backs interventionist type of occupation in countries around the world the middle east is just another region that has been destabilized as the us who really play the role as the front line bullies and the international spread of democracy on behalf of western intel the u.s. has built you know over nine hundred bases one hundred forty five countries around the world spreading democracy at the end of a gun barrel or with drones flying overhead force. citizens that never asked for the for the us invitation to come to the envoys to come into the into their countries to democratize them is what is causing these these conflicts that you're seeing today this crisis is warranted because of us foreign policy and the interventionist style the tactics that are utilized in order to occupy these nations and create chaos out of which centralization is the desired goal. and pakistan at least seventeen people were killed on friday in protests over the anti

islam film the government declared love for the prophet day but it didn't stop violence from erupting throughout the country and islam abad thousands tried to breach the us embassy in a clash with police and the pakistani capital's diplomatic area police used tear gas for tongs and followed bullets into the air to disperse the crowds in the northwest city of peshawar rampaging protesters set fire to sentiments pakistan has seen almost a week of violent protests over the innocence of muslims crowds also rallied in lebanon after friday prayers foreign policy analyst robert nigh men says the film mocking islam is breeding extremism. this is jew all extents and purposes oh jihadi just recruiting video. we've seen in the us government. in some cases successfully you do too should press what they consider to be jogging through green green acres in the west even in parts of the us government there is

a prejudice against muslims which is reflected in the us foreign policy and he contributes only atmosphere which these events are unfolding to pakistan you see shooting the drone strikes day is overwhelmingly opposed by pakistani kenyan by. political point stance a bully by the government this is a tremendously resentment in pakistan against the united states fortunately the military in the cia and to this cause even though nearly a former and current u.s. diplomatic political officials believe that the car that the drone strikes are counterproductive are causing united states more harm than good. still to come on the prowl where tear gas and stun grenades are used to disperse a protest in bahrain as more demonstrations against the monarchy break down. and

the u.k. says it has no plans to increase welfare payments in the next two years money that's crucial to those who are struggling to make ends meet. crowds of supporters of scottish independence are swelling in the center of where expected to march people have flocked to the capital from across scotland for a rally on the referendum to break away from the u.k. could be hammered out by late october greens reports the event taking place in edinburgh is been trumpeted as a stepping stone to the referendum to be held on independence in two thousand and fourteen the organizers want similar demonstrations to take place on our new basis building up to that vote trying to gain some momentum on the issue any issue indecision when it comes to independents likely to be thrashed out here in the building behind me in westminster and here is where alex down the head of the

scottish national party just this week met david cameron the prime minister he also though some received from the work and pensions minister he said and the scottish national party wouldn't be able to handle the welfare state independently as something that sounded supporters a said soul to an attitude that really few calls for independents are top of that one the main issues that is fueling the fire when it comes to independents has been the handling in westminster of finances on the back of the financial crisis some of it's received a lot of criticism and underpinning all of that offshore north sea all revenues expected to earn about thirty four billion dollars on an annual basis and that's something that scotland and its populace seem increasingly wanting to get their hands on. lythgoe who is campaigning for independence says that

a scotland outside of the u.k. could make decisions based on its own needs. so with independence one of the biggest advantages is the ability to create feed our society the ability to do is to design in our financial system the ability to design our system in scotland we've gone down a different path we have to be education we could be prescription charges we are focusing mark far more on construction and job creation and investing in in the economy scotland has massive potential in renewable industry in fact the scottish government has just invested a lot of money in the green industry so in scotland we're choosing to die in a different path and we've done really well in the areas where we come from so we have different priorities what westminster do and about and we one of the biggest advanced use of independence was to be able to do so so the different virtues in all the other areas of competency which we don't cut and we have. our online news

team is keeping you up to date with the events in scotland on r.t. dot com and while you are on the web check out some other stories to. the american media as losing the trial some of the people as the majority of americans have stopped expecting the mainstream years to. pass failure plays a spanish woman who became famous for a blemish singing nineteenth century first looks to cash in on the fiasco. stay with our team more news coming up in a few minutes. well . it's technology innovation. developments around russia we've got the future covered.

the legacy no one should be proud. keeps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also expressed amazement. at how prosperous the settlement was well times have obviously a challenge where they saw it lags they still attracting the region tourists are barons work i would then commerce watch native cash that's why when bad there are a goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the new and put it at barron's work central square that in the nine hundred

eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs to a degree located halfway between north america and western europe the space bergen archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of sars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. very. picture of the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades curious. for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russian. coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local souvenir shops so between mary bill it is a big hit the defunct are incurred and still helps keep the money flowing guys it's

all rushing through your show but you can't put a. link there on. your local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourist operators if you come into a very authentic place like bond it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic traditional. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on us this time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add the morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called the wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar.

back to the program you're watching. in bahrain security forces how far sunstone. government demonstrators at least twenty nine. protesters are calling for an end to what they call discrimination by these sudden monarchy. on one side france leaders agreeing to accept most of the un human rights recommendations pledging to suppress violence and improve treatment of political prisoners by than fifty people have been told in the past which has been ongoing since february last year but international affairs and defense analyst lie of yours the government is who

operate in the us on the show. i believe that they are going to continue with a repressive measure and if they appear that they are going to go see those issues that's just going to be cause made it we don't receive i believe. the west particularly of washington. of the united states a trading partner us will it where the headquarters of the fifth u.s. fleet in the persian gulf are located he bahrain i don't think that the. east through with this to try to coax. people crissy freedom of speech over the shia majority over bahrain. appears like yes there are. a sceptic there equipment patients need of course that they are going to try to follow them try to relax their repressive over the majority of the bahraini population but it's

just for the media for public upbeat the inferred western. all right time now to take a look at some other news making headlines around the world go sour. thousands of demonstrators have rallied in portugal to protest against the government's austerity measures police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowd three people were arrested during the clashes with no injuries reported it comes a week after more than one hundred fifty thousand people took to the streets to protest talks. a u.s. drone strike targeting suspected militants has killed four people in a tribal area of northwest pakistan the victims were inside their car when they were hit by missiles fired by the unmanned aircraft it's the first such attack since protests began against an american made anti islam film pakistan has persistently asked the white house to stop the drone strikes a request which the us continues to ignore. ecuador says it's considering asking

britain to authorize transferring julian assange to its embassy in sweden so he can respond to sex crimes charges there ecuador also says the whistleblower could be questioned at its embassy in london where songe has been holed up since june the u.k. is yet to respond ecuador granted the wiki leaks editor asylum last month but the standoff continues fears that if he was sent to sweden he would then face all word extradition to the u.s. to stand trial for the king diplomatic tables. riot police had to be called into a suburban dutch town went around four thousand party goers turned up at a teenager's birthday party the crowd threw stones bottles and even bicycles at police who had been put on standby after the party invitation went viral on facebook the girl forgot to mark her event as private and had to flee her home after over one thousand users one hundred thousand excuse me said they would attend

. there with r t and coming up later in the program or you say. not enough is being done on the part of the government and there's too much public interest in everybody's private business it's more like a cultural thing i think everybody just wants everybody's stuff are to us resident hits the streets of new york to find out if enough to be done to keep our online bank and shopping it. from happening. because plans to freeze social support is causing a lot among the growing number of people in the contrary are finding it hard to make ends meet welfare payments are set to stay at the same level for the next two years despite inflation. explains its areas such as this one london's tory a state that have been bearing the brunt of the british government's austerity drive already more than one in four children here in the u.k.

live in poverty and sadly that figure is only projected to increase even so the coalition government says that they need to lash. out on the welfare bill in order to cut the national debt by twenty fifteen now the british chancellor george osborne is reportedly considering freezing working age benefits in order to hit that target we are already talking about groups of people who are squeeze are struggling have had their living standards affected over the last couple of years because of what's happened in the global economic environment and what's been i think i said to him if this change or something like it was to go through we would see those living standards further affected for the worst at the moment welfare payments are linked to inflation and that is increasing much frost of the wages back in june prime minister david cameron said that it's unfair that the awnings of

the people that do work in the u.k. are increasing much more slowly than. benefits of the eight percent of the british population that is currently walk now and then they see another group being dragged into this and that's the so-called we used middle that are currently struggling with being creasing costs of food fuel and clothing almost seven million working adults here in britain struggle with the basic cost of living and it's areas such as these where the trickle down effect of stretched pay packets and a benefits freeze are going to be devastating with crowds of people eager to get their hands on the new i phone five you know that apple is now researching new ways to know precisely just way or you use your device but some are fighting back computer gurus from around the world are now teaching people how to keep their privacy in their hands or to use resident laurie oftenest finds out of people in the big apple know how to protect themselves.

security professionals and hackers around the world are holding classes in cryptography to teach people how to protect themselves in the digital world how concerned are you with your virtual privacy this week let's talk about that are you worried about your privacy online or on your computer. while privacy very. many people are crazy you know and i know that he's he's only just signed up for it in a banking because he was always concerned that someone was going to steal is money but i mean it comes out of convenience it's easier just to go online and check everything. it's just a bit scary did you use a password that is your pet or your street name or something like that or just. because that's an easy one to get yeah what do you think is the biggest villain out

there in terms of invasion of privacy is it the public at large the government hackers. i'd say not so and not enough is being done on the part of the government and there's too much public interest in everybody's private business it's more of like a cultural thing i think everybody just wants everybody's stuff you know yeah and it's weird that companies are making money off of people's private information that's to be expected if they can make money they will i don't give me information in. my name maybe if. that's all what about on your computer though do you have sensitive files something. that maybe better think about it yeah i think about it but. you can encrypt it would you take a class to learn how to encrypt you don't care that much. do you keep any personal back on your computer yeah you know what would you take cryptography class to learn how to protect it more. probably not no.

that is that it yeah why do you think people don't do more because i think we're a little lazy maybe we expect it's going to happen to other people and never to ourselves the same reasons we poorly and don't act their size at the same reasons we don't protect ourselves are you suggesting i eat poorly whether or not you're concerned about your digital privacy the bottom line is that virtual world is swiftly becoming what the real world says a place where big brother and bad for us this might be what. we are with are the few minutes we bring you the story of the hopes and dangers sights in bangladesh graveyards for ships.

a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the long ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes so many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious tele cation. alexei wants to become and heard as part of this preparation. however these beasts is a musical company. based on sequences you know they react to the sound signals the flutes the heard is heard in the old days they needed them it wasn't just for fun but these matters didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard this island is mostly rock. the soil here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded

by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. to grow their own crops from their own fish and repair their own churches. but the central purpose of alarm has always been religious the main ministries surrounded by smaller primaries spread through the many archipelago the monks who know their existence is a little different from that of of them on the streets here. we do have. song times. but only. tranquility use. the. combination of high religion and down to earth hard work than motivates these men.

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so. why is the pressure so low. go in there and get rid of the oil.

my name is mohammed rethink i'm forty seven years old i dismantle old ships i've spent thirty two years of my life here. about to. get down from there. on most workers come from the north the poorest part of bangladesh get. it out that they all yearn to come here that they consider this place to be like somewhere abroad that. you understand chittagong is like a foreign country to these people they.